Wild Plum a haiku journal 3:1 Spring & Summer 2017
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Sandi Pray
petals brighten
rich beyond
tickseed
her grey hair—
my wildest dreams
the sound of sunshine
another spring
plum blossoms
falling on a meadow
Nathalie Buckland (Australia)
Johnny Baranski (USA)
David J. Kelly (Ireland)
cherry blossoms falling . . .
lotus blossom
leap year…
the bald man
rising from the pond
a wealth of polliwogs
moves his bishop
morning frogs
after spring rain
Michael Dylan Welch (USA)
Marilyn Fleming (USA)
Patricia Daharsh (USA)
4
Steliana Cristina Voicu
Bucket list
all those dead
fresh tar –
a new
not knowing they’re dead
one more lie makes
bucket
spring flowers
no difference
Alexis Rotella (USA)
Ernest Wit (Poland)
Shloka Shankar (India)
pencil pine ripples coming back alone with my thoughts
the moon dots an i
Julie Warther (USA)
Lorin Ford (Australia) 6
haiku: Nika; photo: Jim McKinniss
Marianne Paul
World AIDS Day —
her long plait
a vase full
reinstalling
lace by lace
of iris buds ...
my antivirus
she traps me
promises, promises
Minh-Triêt Pham (France)
Sambangi (India)
Anne Curran (New Zealand)
dust settles . . .
spring cleaning
diamond wedding...
the sharp absence
I see my childhood
their kiss with a scent
of presence
in my doll’s eyes
of Corega
Peter Jastermsky (USA)
Kristina Ng (Malaysia)
Diana Teneva (Bulgaria)
9
Madhuri Pillai
graduation day—
tangle of yarn
grandpa's voice
dad removes the wire
yesterday is now
I tear the filter
from the bonsai
is tomorrow
off a cigarette
Magdalena Banaszkiewicz
Dottie Piet (USA)
Edward Cody Huddleston (USA)
recess bell
onsen steam
pancakes at midnight
the playground fills
the monkey and I
the new moon's
with wind
equally red-faced
thin smile
Dave Read (Canada)
Marietta Jane McGregor
Phyllis Lee (USA)
(Poland)
(Australia) 11
Nina Kovačić
shadows long –
susurrus...
among fringed she-oaks -
mud wasps stop to refuel
now and then the daisies
his fingers gently touching
in the bird bath
caress the breeze
her long dark hair
Richard Stevenson (Canada)
Madhuri Pillai (Australia)
Janet Howie (Australia)
a scattering
ivy
branches barely touch
of mitre-shaped petals . . .
waxy leaves color
my faraway
bishop’s purple
monolithic walls
family
Elaine Riddell (New Zealand)
Jesus Chameleon (USA)
Sondra J. Byrnes (USA)
13
Mercy Ikuri
cornerstone
attic sill
half an hour
my inner child
succumbing to dust
in the phone box
traces the date
one dead moth
falling rain
Agnes Eva Savich (USA)
Anna Cates (USA)
Garry Eaton (Canada)
my untied shoe string
sleepless
rainy day
faster than I am
thoughts are circling
I watch you watching
step after step
around the question
an ant
Nina Kovačić (Croatia)
Pitt Büerken (Germany)
Christiane Ranieri (France)
15
Debbie Strange
passing by
vibration
outbreak -
the lamplighter turns on
of a spider web
a mutilated rose
eyes of stray cats
wind chimes
woos bees
Roman Lyakhovetsky (Israel)
Deborah P Kolodji (USA)
Lavana Kray (Romania)
daubs
sparrows
human voices
of a calligrapher’s brush –
working the eaves
the water dragon turns
crows in mist
of the unemployment office
back to stone
Mark Miller (Australia)
Robert A Spicer (Canada)
Lorin Ford (Australia)
17
Minh-Triêt Pham
daylilies
first pop of rhubarb
fireflies blink
my toddler asks
the flow of honey
within the grass—
what they do at night
from the spoon
sky crowded with stars
Marilyn Appl Walker (USA)
Mark Gilbert (UK)
Craig W. Steele (USA)
mating dance – the hush within
cupped still life on bone china tea butterflies
a crane's wingbeats Theresa A. Cancro (USA)
Marianne Paul (Canada) 19
Elizabeth Crocket
A sneeze–
quick fingers
clear sky
The cat looses
searching the Web. . .
a mothionless heron
Its rhythm
spider legs
Debarun Sarkar (India)
Tricia Marcella Cimera (USA)
in the reeds Nikolay Grankin (Russia)
lightning flashes through driving rain
reticent:
immoveable toad
one last leaf
on the porch stair
on the tree
Wally Swist (USA)
Peter Jastermsky (USA) 21
Lavana Kray
zen circle
first stroll—
summer solstice
the baby's fingers
in front of the pram
a toddler fragments
grasping at her toes
fresh snow
the snake’s skin
Robert Witmer (Japan)
Magdalena Banaszkiewicz
Quendryth Young (Australia)
(Poland)
leaving parents…
reunion website
Dad’s burial
the garden lilies
ads flicker around
drying basil
almost blooming
strange names
stems up
Salil Chaturvedi (India)
Duncan Richardson (Australia)
Jim Krotzman (USA)
23
Mary Kendall
afterward…
deep darkness
one year gone
even his spider man watch
I discover
your last message
at rest
the invisible
stored as saved
Jo Balistreri (USA)
Pravat Kumar Padhy (India)
Gavin Austin (Australia)
cicadas before
purple azaleas
grey lichens
Nagasaki
under the snow
on a stunted birch tree
cicadas after
a frozen memory
chill of midday
Johnny Baranski (USA)
Devin Harrison (Canada)
Ernest Wit (Poland)
25
Ayaz Daryl Nielsen
sunset beach
house for sale –
hard rain
a hermit crab
the old ceramic pitcher
a stranger opens
founds home
guarding secrets
my mind's door
Anthony Q. Rabang (Philippines)
Steliana Cristina Voicu
Debbie Strange (Canada)
(Romania)
heavy
earth scent
Aurora Borealis -
with morning light . . .
a dream
curtains undulate
the snail’s path
I tell in silence
in the bedroom window
Mark E. Brager (USA)
Guliz Mutlu (Turkey)
Jay Friedenberg (USA)
27
David J. Kelly
After weeks raindrops slowly erasing the flagstone
of blistering heat raindrop therapy
Frank Cavano (USA)
Alexis Rotella (USA)
downpour
cloud-to-cloud lightning
end of rains
placing all my trust
your word
the evening stars
in someone's tail lights
against mine
bitten by mosquitoes
Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy (UK)
Polona Oblak (Slovenia)
Salil Chaturvedi (India)
29
Capotă Daniela Lăcrămioara
empty porch swing
walking a dog
Crowded tourist spot
dappled with sunlight
the breeze catches her dress,
I found my old love
grandma's hands
brings it back
in a selfie
Kari Davidson (USA)
Gabriel Bates (USA)
Aziza Hena (Bangladesh)
monsoon cloud -
at the hayfield’s edge
two neighbors by the fence
calm presence from a woodland
chat about Palestine
scent of aging green
Precious Oboh (Nigeria)
Ayaz Daryl Nielsen (USA) 31
John Rowlands
unforgettable—
morning coffee
cherry blossoms
the taste of zinfandel
darkened with the thought
nihon buyo streams
on your lips
of getting old
welcome guests
Mary Kendall (USA)
Chen-ou Liu (Canada)
Jessica Renee Dawson (Canada)
loaves and fishes
the setting sun
New Year's Eve --
this thin slice
in our glasses
she pours hot gossip
of moon
old friends
in every cup
Julie Warther (USA)
Rachel Sutcliffe (UK)
Kumarendra Mallick (India)
33
Michael Dylan Welch
cold moon
winter fog
solitude
a beggar wrapped
the shape of the morning
cutting snow ball into
in his shadow
after the crow
two half moon
Ramesh Anand (India)
Polona Oblak (Slovenia)
Neha R. Krishna (India)
carved under
aging season
winter night —
the full moon
receding ice
tanning under the sun
white horse
from the pond's edge
of the neon lamp
Tim Gardiner (UK)
Joyce Joslin Lorenson (USA)
Minh-Triêt Pham (France)
35
haiku: Ken Sawitri; artwork: Jimat Achmadi
long lost love
Sultry air
waiting in silence -
I cover the wine stain
the salt farmer's wife
the moon and I
with a new pillow
raking up the sun
at the water's edge
Maria Tomczak (Poland)
Ken Sawitri (Indonesia)
Eva Joan (Germany)
erasing my doodle
the street pianist
forgiveness
on a hot afternoon—
changing rhythm
the new year’s moon
a stray ant turns its head
of passing steps
lights the way
Michael Dylan Welch (USA)
Mercy Ikuri (Kenya)
Mary Kendall (USA)
37
Marietta Jane McGregor
spring arrives a porch of rockers
spring knocking raindrops off the olive branch
rock themselves Phyllis Lee (USA)
Roman Lyakhovetsky (Israel)
the kitten
your hidden side
we rename
has his own plans . . .
the forest floor covered
all the peaks
plum blossoms
with nasturtiums
spring cleaning
Kyle Sullivan (Taiwan)
Deborah P Kolodji (USA)
Tony Burfield (USA)
39
Haiku: Tsanka Shishkova; photo: Topala
summer night
noon ...
midsummer
spiders busy capturing
the pattern of sunlight
your way of leaning out
moonlight
through her straw hat
for raspberries
Ed Bremson (USA)
Jill Lange (USA)
Dan Schwerin (USA)
paddy field —
scaling
Late summer –
the wallowing buffalo
the leylandii
curtains and shadows
licks its nose
wild roses
shift in the heat
Aparna Pathak (India)
Helen Buckingham (UK)
James Roderick Burns (UK)
41
Malintha Perera
sandaled feet
up Monument Mountain
early dawn
stirring the monkshood
the trail blazed blue
transient moon comes
vesper bell
tree by tree
from the grasses
Marilyn Fleming (USA)
Anthony Botti (USA)
Goran Gatalica (Croatia)
pan flute song –
summer wind blowing in
loud tides
woven with the sky's blue
from across the sea
disturbed mind
romanian blouse tassels
old blue eyes
becoming silent
Steliana Cristina Voicu
James Babbs (USA)
Mallika Chari (India)
(Romania) 43
Sandi Pray
naked trees
mountain mist
gathering clouds
one at a time -
monastery roofs
the subtle change
knitting woolen things
dwell in silence
in her voice
Lavana Kray (Romania)
Luisa-Evelina Stifii (Romania)
Nika (Canada)
Capricorn night
river stones
Hazy moon
looking deeper
what’s still unexplored
the clear sound
into the pond
between us
of a thudding nutmeg
Simon Hanson (Australia)
Sharon Pretti (USA)
Ken Sawitri (Indonesia)
45
thunderheads —
thick mud after rain
brown pelicans
pea vines lashing
lifting my footprints
without their shadows
the wind
after me
…a tugboat’s horn
Bill Waters (USA)
Adjei Agyei-Baah (Ghana)
Patricia Daharsh (USA)
storm-downed tree... following footsteps through dirty snow ash Wednesday
how hard we find it mending broken ties
Jennifer Hambrick (USA)
Marietta Jane McGregor (Australia) 46
the first snow
alpine scree
chill wind -
smell
flecks of snow
in the clearing
of childhood
in my beard
abandoned voices
Gennady Nov (Russia)
Bruce H. Feingold (USA)
Lysa Collins (Canada)
no stars
wintry dusk –
a snowflake falls
a single window light
my phone call
on a snowman
goes out
unanswered
faces in a crowd
Jan Dobb (Australia)
Maria Laura Valente (Italy)
Robert Witmer (Japan)
47
haiku: Adjei Agyei-Baah; photo: Alexei Bednij
trout splashes—
eyebrow moon
last short night
from this century
the way she utters
mother stares at
only the kayak
those three words
the fingernail moon
Tom Sacramona (USA)
Chen-ou Liu (Canada)
Ramesh Anand (India)
falling leaves-
shaking his antlers
the vee
wind scatters our words down the alleys David Milovanović (Serbia)
a moose sheds the cold lake Bruce H. Feingold (USA) 49
of migrating geese sheets flap on the line Jo Balistreri (USA)
wedding proposal a thousand paper cranes
heavy traffic bees in the jasmine vine
take flight Scott Wiggerman (USA)
Gavin Austin (Australia)
1000 paper cranes -
jasmine
shapes of spring
cannot fold
on the dashboard--
snow melts
war into peace
inner city spring
in a deer carcass
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams (USA)
Robyn Cairns (Australia)
Adrian Bouter (The Netherlands)
50
Judas steer
easter morn
autumn grey -
finding myself
the cross-town camber
each thought southbound
in the driver’s seat again
of change bells
with the mourning doves
Christina Sng (Singapore)
Jan Benson (USA)
Tiffany Shaw-Diaz (USA)
October dusk black oceans of doubt
think tank oil in the lobby well
in the 8 ball Anna Cates (USA)
Bill Cooper (USA) 51
letting go of all her selves skin-tight jeans Nika (Canada)
counting milestones not much left to say
Shloka Shankar (India) 52
haiku: Nika; photo: Jim McKinniss
Index of authors Achmadi, Jimat p. 36
Cavano, Frank p. 29
Howie, Janet p. 13
Agyei-Baah, Adjei p. 46, 48
Chameleon, Jesus p .13
Huddleston, Edward Cody p. 11
Anand, Ramesh p. 35, 49
Chari, Mallika p. 43
Ikuri, Mercy p. 14, 37
Austin, Gavin p. 25, 50
Chaturvedi, Salil p. 23, 29
Jastermsky, Peter p. 9, 21
Babbs, James p. 43
Cimera, Tricia Marcella p. 21
Joan, Eva p. 37
Balistreri, Jo p. 25, 49
Cooper, Bill p. 51
Kelly, David J. p. 4, 28
Banaszkiewicz, Magdalena p. 11, 23
Crocket, Elizabeth p. 20
Kendall, Mary p. 24, 33, 37
Baranski, Johnny p. 4, 25
Curran, Anne p. 9
Kolodji, Deborah P p. 17, 39
Bates, Gabriel p. 31
Daharsh, Patricia p. 4, 46
Kovačić, Nina p. 12, 15
Bednij, Alexei p. 48
Davidson, Kari p. 31
Kray, Lavana p. 17, 22, 45
Benson, Jan p. 51
Dawson, Jessica Renee p. 33
Krishna, Neha R. p. 35
Botti, Anthony p. 43
Eaton, Garry p. 15
Krishnamurthy, Shrikaanth p. 29
Bouter, Adrian p. 50
Feingold, Bruce H. p. 49
Krotzman, Jim p. 23
Brager, Mark E. p. 27
Fleming Marilyn p. 4, 43
Lăcrămioara, Capotă Daniela p. 30
Bremson, Ed p. 41
Ford, Lorin p. 6, 17
Lange, Jill p. 41
Buckingham, Helen p. 41
Friedenberg, Jay p. 27
Lee, Phyllis p. 11, 39
Buckland, Nathalie p. 4
Gardiner, Tim p. 35
Liu, Chen-ou p. 33, 49
Büerken, Pitt p. 15
Gatalica, Goran p. 43
Lorenson, Joyce Joslin p. 35
Burfield, Tony p. 39
Gilbert, Mark p. 19
Lyakhovetsky, Roman p. 17, 39
Burns, James Roderick p. 41
Grankin, Nikolay p. 21
Mallick, Kumarendra p. 33
Byrnes, Sondra J. p. 13
Hambrick, Jennifer p. 46
McGregor, Marietta Jane p. 11, 38, 46
Cairns, Robyn p. 50
Hanson, Simon p. 45
McKinniss, Jim p. 7, 53
Cancro, Theresa A. p. 19
Harrison, Devin p. 25
Miller, Mark p. 17
Cates, Anna p. 15, 51
Hena, Aziza p. 31
Milovanović, David p. 49
Mutlu, Guliz p. 27
Sambangi p. 9
Wiggerman, Scott p. 50
Ng, Kristina p. 9
Sarkar, Debarun p. 21
Wit, Ernest p. 6, 25
Nielsen, Ayaz Daryl p. 26, 31
Savich, Agnes Eva p. 15
Witmer, Robert p. 23, 47
Nika p. 7, 45, 52, 53
Sawitri, Ken p. 36, 37, 45
Youth, Quendryth p. 23
Nov, Gennady p. 47
Schwerin, Dan p. 41
Oblak, Polona p. 29, 35
Shankar, Shloka p. 6, 52
Oboh, Precious p. 31
Shaw-Diaz, Tiffany p. 51
Padhy, Pravat Kumar p. 25
Shishkova, Tsanka p. 40
Pathak, Aparna p. 41
Sng, Christina p. 51
Paul, Marianne p. 8, 19
Spicer, Robert A p. 17
Perera, Malintha p. 42
Steele, Craig W. p. 19
Pham, Minh-Triêt p. 9, 18, 35
Stevenson, Richard p. 13
Piet, Dottie p.11
Stifii, Luisa-Evelina p. 45
Pillai, Madhuri p. 9, 13
Strange, Debbie p. 16, 27
Pray, Sandi p. 3, 44
Sullivan, Kyle p. 39
Pretti, Sharon p. 45
Sutcliffe, Rachel p. 33
Rabang, Anthony Q. p. 27
Swist, Wally p. 21
Ranaldi-Adams, Valentina p. 50
Teneva, Diana p. 9
Ranieri, Christiane p. 15
Tomczak, Maria p. 37
Read, Dave p. 11
Valente, Maria Laura p. 47
Richardson, Duncan p. 23
Voicu, Steliana Cristina p. 5, 27, 43
Riddell, Elaine p. 13
Walker, Marilyn Appl p. 19
Rotella, Alexis p. 6, 29
Warther, Julie p. 6, 33
Rowlands, John p. 32
Waters, Bill p. 46
Sacramona, Tom p. 49
Welch, Michael Dylan p. 4, 34, 37
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